One special type of hand axe, particularly popular in the early Viking period, was the 'skegox', or bearded axe, so called because of its elongated lower edge.

This axe was quite small, with a thick triangular section at the socket, resulting in a very heavy blade for it's small size.

The Broadaxe, or Dane-axe, was a two handed axe introduced by the Vikings in the late tenth century but which soon became popular with Saxons as well, and was probably developed from the axes used to slaughter animals.

The BeechingAxe was an informal name for the British government's attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be "little-used" and unprofitable railway lines.

This was the start of the Axe; the peak year followed in 1964.

It would generally be impossible for most of the stations closed by the BeechingAxe to be reopened; many embankments have been filled in and built on (for example around Cowley) and some station buildings have been sold and are now private homes.

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Ericsson's AXE, the most widely deployed switching system in the world, is a system for digital exchange nodes in large public telecommunications networks.

AXE is also deployed for all major mobile standards - both analog and digital.

Never use an axe as the wedge or driver; the head of the axe may shatter and you could be injured by pieces of it.

The axe should always be masked when finished with or not in use.

When the axe has to be transported from one area to another, it should be masked (obviously not within a log) and should be carried so that the head is in your hand with the blade facing forwards and the toe facing towards the sky.

The Unique ceremony of burying the axe in the War Post, at the Outdoor School of Dan Beard, National Commissioner, Boy Scouts of America.

The aim is taken, not by sighting along the axe, but by fixing the eyes on the target, and raising the axe until the edge is on a level with the eyes.

The axe is then brought back over the shoulder without turning the edge to one side or the other, and thrown from this position with a natural forward sweep of the arm, swinging the body forward as the axe is thrown.

Unilever introduced Axe to the United States market in 2002 with television commercials showing beautiful women attacking male mannequins that had been sprayed with Axe, which of course drove the women insane with desire.

Axe, which comes in several scents, was formulated to be really strong so young guys would know they were getting something manly at the first whiff.

There's an Axe Web site that is a tad more graphic than television, and the company expects young men to download video from the site and share it with friends, thus becoming agents of Unilever as well as consumers.

AXE 3 is better than 2.1 and there are some known (smallish) bugs in 2.1 that are fixed in 3.

Earlier versions of AXE were registered to a particular machine, but although this did prevent some piracy it was also inconvenient, so the system was changed.

Although it would be possible to make AXE edit physical disks on the '95' family of OSes, AXE is not being developed in that direction and the number of users still on these OSes is diminishing steadily.

Finally, the word axe is pronounced similarly to the way I pronounce the web address of www.accs.com, which is where you probably found this.

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t.an:kais = with axes and spades; kut., kut.t.

The discoveries in graves at Mukayyar and Warka (the Biblical Ur of the Chaldees and Erech respectively) throw further light upon metallurgical knowledge at a period estimated between 2500 and 1000 BC.

They include axes and adzes with shaft-holes at one end, semi-circular tools split at the butt, straight daggers with riveted tangs, and curved knives; one of the latter on analysis proved to contain no tin.